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as in lurches
to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions
the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas
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as in fidgets
to make jerky or restless movements
tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat
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as in throws
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
toss that football over here
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as in discards
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use
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Recent Examples of tosses
Another day, as Mom loads the children into the car, Jeremy tosses a basketball against the house, again and again, his passive aggression registering through the ball’s unyielding thuds and his own frozen gaze.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
Jobe Reed tosses 5 innings, scattering 4 hits with no runs, 7 strikeouts and 3 walks.
—Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026
Ben has William arrested as an invader and tosses him in the camp prison.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
There, an employee fires up a machine that tosses small rings of doughnut batter into a fryer.
—Jenna Thompson
april 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
Macfadyen tosses Dirty Rotten Scoundrels into the stew of influences.
—Sarah Rodman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
Lindell eventually accepts the documents, tosses them aside, and continues his interview with O’Keefe Media Group reporter Michael Casey.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
While the two men struggle with the jammed backdoor, Weisz’s character tosses them both a look before rushing toward the flames to grab her unfinished manuscript, written on legal pads, and dashing out of the cabin just in time.
—Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2026
Gyllenhaal lovingly crafts this scarred, stapled and eccentric Bonnie and Clyde duo then tosses them into a landscape of curiosities that matches their weird.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
Jobe Reed tosses 5 innings, scattering 4 hits with no runs, 7 strikeouts and 3 walks.
—Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026
Ben has William arrested as an invader and tosses him in the camp prison.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
There, an employee fires up a machine that tosses small rings of doughnut batter into a fryer.
—Jenna Thompson
april 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
Macfadyen tosses Dirty Rotten Scoundrels into the stew of influences.
—Sarah Rodman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
Lindell eventually accepts the documents, tosses them aside, and continues his interview with O’Keefe Media Group reporter Michael Casey.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
While the two men struggle with the jammed backdoor, Weisz’s character tosses them both a look before rushing toward the flames to grab her unfinished manuscript, written on legal pads, and dashing out of the cabin just in time.
—Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2026
Gyllenhaal lovingly crafts this scarred, stapled and eccentric Bonnie and Clyde duo then tosses them into a landscape of curiosities that matches their weird.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tosses
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But Wembanyama is on the short list of MVP favorites as the league lurches toward the playoffs, a list that includes former NBA champions Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of OKC, Denver’s Nikola Jokic along with Detroit’s Cade Cunningham and Los Angeles’ Luka Doncic.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Feb. 2026
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After a moment of hesitation, Harington lurches forward and plants a passionate kiss on Turner, who responds in kind.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Feb. 2026
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The man fidgets, shifts around in his seat and fixates on Zarutska before pulling out a small knife and striking her multiple times around her neck.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Sep. 2025
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Through all these threads, The Audacity throws itself headlong at some of tech’s biggest hot-button topics, including privacy, AI and, in an oddly halfhearted subplot involving JoAnne’s son, Everett Bliunck’s Orson, the manosphere, with an eye as cold as its characters.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
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Spieth, nine holes away from another wire-to-wire victory, throws it away with a collapse around Amen Corner that is shocking even by Augusta National standards.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2026
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At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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Biff shouts at him at the show’s excruciating climax) sways between light and dark, between the road and the deadly shoulder, advancing through his last hours on earth as if through the stations of the cross.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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Sunday's vote was seen as a key test of whether the EU member nation stays on its liberal course or sways toward the right.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2026
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When Brian and Murtagh report that Dougal offended the Grants and Colum had to promise Ellen’s hand to appease the situation, Lord Lovat squirms.—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Hathaway hurls herself into that punishing sequence with violent physical force and emotional rawness.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Apr. 2026
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Which is why there’s actually something immensely satisfying about all the bad ideas that Margot (Barbie Ferreira) hurls herself at over the course of Faces of Death.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on March 11, 2026.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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After his dreams are all but dashed, Shah unloads on himself.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Tosses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tosses. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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